NEWS LITE : ARTICLE HEAPS ASHES AND SWITCHES ON BOB HOPE.Bob Hope, 95 last May, gets his lumps from a host of associates in a New Yorker piece in the Dec. 21 issue. Ex-manager Elliot Kozak calls him ``the most self-centered person'' he's ever known; publicist of 41 years Frank Liberman says, ``He never walked past a mirror without looking at himself or smoothing his hair''; ``MASH'' creator Larry Gelbart Larry Simon Gelbart (born February 25 1928 in Chicago) is a prolific American comedy writer with over sixty years of credits. He began as a writer for Danny Thomas radio show during 1940s, and wrote for Jack Paar and Bob Hope. , a Hope TV writer, says the comedian was so cheap that he made him bring his own orange juice to morning joke-writing sessions; Melville Shavelson, who directed him in several movies, says Hope demanded the key to the director's apartment for a tryst and paid his writers by gathering them at the bottom of the stairs and sailing their checks at them after making airplanes of them. As for his family, daughter Linda Hope says: ``I don't feel that I really know him. That's a kind of sadness for me because I would have liked to know him better.'' Kozak says Hope's wife of 64 years, Dolores Dolores (or Delores) was a common given name (until the 1960s in the USA); it is cognate with the English word "dolorous" (meaning sorrowful) and equivalent in meaning. , ``longed for romance from this man, and he was cold as ice to her.'' Dolores, addressing her husband's legendary womanizing wom·an·ize v. woman·ized, woman·iz·ing, woman·iz·es v.intr. To pursue women lecherously. v.tr. To give female characteristics to; feminize. , says, ``It never bothered me because I thought I was better-looking than anybody else.'' Senator dating ex-`SNL' scribe Sen. Bob Kerrey is seeing a former ``Saturday Night Live'' writer. Kerrey met Sarah Paley in 1995 through an aide to Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan Noun 1. Daniel Patrick Moynihan - United States politician and educator (1927-2003) Moynihan . ``She invaded my privacy,'' said the Nebraska Democrat, who dated Debra Winger Debra Winger (born May 16, 1955) is an Academy Award- nominated American actress. Biography Early life Born Mary Debra Winger in Cleveland Heights, Ohio to a Jewish family, she spent several years in Israel, and served in the Israel Defense Forces. back in the '80s. Kerrey, 55, said on Sunday he isn't interested in the 2000 presidential race and will run for a third Senate term. He said Paley, 42, had offered her views. ``She said she'd support me either way,'' he said. Unwrapping begins; Christo's covered trees see light of day After spending four weeks under gray polyester, most of 178 trees wrapped by the husband-and-wife team of Christo and Jeanne-Claude Christo (born Hristo Yavashev, Bulgarian: Христо Явашев) and Jeanne-Claude (born Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebon) are a married couple who create environmental installation art. emerged from their covers Monday. The public unwrapping in a Swiss museum park, supervised by the artists' field manager, was expected to last a week. But by nightfall Monday, workers in Riehen, Switzerland, had uncovered two-thirds of the exhibit, the Beyeler museum said. Weather permitting, the operation will be finished today. Local officials said the trees had suffered only minimal damage under their woven polyester fabric covering. The 461,000 square feet of fabric and 14 miles of rope are to be recycled. The artists, who grabbed global attention by wrapping cloth around Berlin's Reichstag building The Reichstag building in Berlin was constructed to house the Reichstag, the original parliament of the German Empire. It was opened in 1894 and housed the Reichstag until 1933. in 1995, originally planned to keep the trees wrapped through January but decided to unveil them early for unspecified ``aesthetic'' reasons. Fleiss prefers jail to halfway house halfway house /half·way house/ (haf´wa hous) a residence for patients (e.g., mental patients, drug addicts, alcoholics) who do not require hospitalization but who need an intermediate degree of care until they can return to the community. Heidi Fleiss Heidi Lynne Fleiss (born December 30 1965), known as the "Hollywood Madam", is a former American madam. She was convicted in connection with her prostitution ring with charges including pandering and tax evasion. Her ring had numerous famous and wealthy clients. is back in jail - at her own request. The Hollywood Madam, jailed two years ago from charges stemming from her call-girl service, was released Nov. 19 to a Los Angeles halfway house to prepare for her final release in May. But Beverly Hills hair stylist Donn Stuart, who gave her a new do at Gateway House the day before she returned to jail, explained that Fleiss, 32, ``was mixed with a lot of men, which made her feel uncomfortable,'' and she decided to go back to jail for the next four months. A halfway-house source said Fleiss ``was being propositioned by the other residents. They didn't seem to believe she had changed her ways.'' Stuart said Fleiss plans a physical makeover, including breast enlargements, upon final release. He said she's also got a book deal and will launch her own Web page. Stone loses 007 to French star Sophie Marceau edged out Sharon Stone for vixen vixen female fox. in the next James Bond movie, Le Parisien reported Monday. The 32-year-old French actress has starred in ``Braveheart,'' ``Anna Karenina'' and ``Firelight.'' She also appears in fragrance ads. Marceau is to play Elektra King, the daughter of a murdered oil magnate, whom Bond, played again by Pierce Brosnan, is charged with protecting. Le Parisien said Marceau beat out Stone for the part and signed her contract with MGM MGM in full Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc. U.S. corporation and film studio. It was formed when the film distributor Marcus Loew, who bought Metro Pictures in 1920, merged it with the Goldwyn production company in 1924 and with Louis B. Mayer Pictures in 1925. studios last week. Marceau will play a Bond girl after actress Denise Richards, does so in another film, which will be shot starting Jan. 11 and should be in theaters in November. `Titanic' director's marriage sinking Linda Hamilton filed for divorce Monday from ``Titanic'' director James Cameron, citing irreconcilable differences The existence of significant differences between a married couple that are so great and beyond resolution as to make the marriage unworkable, and for which the law permits a Divorce. . Hamilton wants custody of the couple's 5-year-old daughter, Josephine, plus attorney's fees and spousal support spousal support n. payment for support of an ex-spouse (or a spouse while a divorce is pending) ordered by the court. More commonly called alimony, spousal support is the term used in California and a few other states as part of new non-confrontational language (such , according to her Los Angeles Superior Court papers. Hamilton married Cameron on June 24, 1997, and was at his side at the Oscars last March, when his epic took home 11 Academy Awards. She is best known for her role in the ``Terminator'' series with Arnold Schwarzenegger, which Cameron directed, and the ``Beauty and the Beast'' television series. She requests that Cameron be awarded visitation and that their assets be divided up by the court. Hamilton did not specify a date of separation. News Lite is compiled by Karen Duffy from Daily News staff and wire reports CAPTION(S): 4 photos PHOTO (1) Workers begin to uncover the first of 178 Swiss trees wrapped by artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude. (2) Marceau (3) Fleiss (4) Hamilton |
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